a third economy is italy. that's faring even poorer. going into an election this weekend, the economy is still expected to some rnk by .1% now. -- schrenk by .1%. >> italy continues to contract for the next year, pretty significantly, much more than france and germany, which everyone has been focusing on today. i think we can expect italy's economic performance to be bad the next couple of years. >> but there is a growing consensus things could even get worse depending on the election results this weekend. it's been called the make or break election. if the winner departs too far from the economic reforms which were put in place by the outgoing president, the markets could turn against italy once again. our correspondent spoke to one of italy's most successful entrepreneurses, the man behind a jeans company. he certainly has his concerns about the abilities of all the candidates going forward. >> just thinking about the tuation, just to make some little adjust, readjust, what exists. it's not really a program how to do something for thi